teaching Archives - Oakland Voices

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How Has COVID and the Pandemic Impacted Your Life?

March 28, 2024 Ryan Barba and Debora Gordon

Oakland Voices writers reflect on four years since the beginning of the pandemic.

Oakland Voices Alumni Spotlight: Debora Gordon

December 12, 2022 Oakland Voices

Oakland Voices has trained dozens of community journalists over the years. We caught up with one of our alumna, Debora Gordon. In our last update about Gordon, we mentioned that she published a children’s book. As

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Back to School in Oakland: High School Teachers Consider the Changes from Zoom to Classroom

October 13, 2021 Debora Gordon

from kindergarten through high school, share their experiences and perceptions, from classroom to Zoom and back again.

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Bringing the Political into the Classroom

January 13, 2021 Debora Gordon

“For the first time in my years of teaching, I taught “sedition,” “insurrection,” “coup d’état,” and “treason.””

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Seven OUSD teachers give sneak peek of first week of school

August 5, 2020 Debora Gordon

7 OUSD teachers respond to distance learning, and what the first week of school might look like.

COVID-19, Protest, Teaching, and Me

August 4, 2020 Debora Gordon

“After only six weeks back in the classroom, nearly all doors slowly closed: no café tete-a-tetes to solve the world’s problems or even our own, no exploring the nooks and crannies of the Bay Area, and teaching only from a remove.”

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OUSD Schools Re-Open August 10; Free Meals Continue Through Summer With 24 Sites

May 28, 2020 Momo Chang

Schools will likely “have some kind of blended model with both in-person and distance learning next year.”